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Hello, and welcome to the Iron Kingdoms. This post and the linked Legacy Fiction posts are intended as an archive of the history of the Iron Kingdoms and it’s narrative fiction from before Iron Kingdoms: Requiem. The final event on this timeline, and the newest fiction to be posted to the Community, is part two of the Henge Hold Scrolls, covering the final moments of the Claiming in 612 AR. For any events after 612 AR please see the Iron Kingdoms: Requiem books or the Warmachine App on iOS and Android.
Additionally, here’s some general links to sources of Iron Kingdoms fiction. I hope to get all of these on the timeline as soon as I am able:
No Quarter PDFs on the Privateer Press Store
DriveThruRPG has epubs of most, if not all, of the work published under the Skull Island Expeditions imprint
Date | Events | Related Fiction |
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Prehistoric Era (Old Races Era) | ||
c. 10,000 BR | All of the elven tribes unite as the Empire of Lyoss (far to the east beyond the Bloodstone Marches). | |
c. 8500 BR | Feud of Ages begins among the dwarves. | |
c. 8200 BR | Feud of Ages ends Stone Lords of the Thirteen Great Clans settle in Ghord. | |
c. 7500 BR | The Dwarven Moot composed of the Hundred Houses in Ghord is established; Dwarves are granted the lore of arcane magic by their gods with strict rules regarding its use. | |
c. 6500 BR | The Canon of the True Law is discovered at the ruins of Icthier by tribes of nomadic humans. Menoth worship begins. | |
c. 6000 BR | Many tribes of nomadic humans begin settling into agricultural communities around Ancient Icthier. Cinot is credited with teaching agriculture to early tribes. | |
c. 5500 BR | Menite priests Belcor and Geth lead Exodus northward from Ancient Icthier in search of more fertile lands. | |
c. 4800 BR | Humans begin settling around the Black River at the Valley of Morrdh. | |
c. 4250 BR | The elves begin to build the mystical Bridge of Worlds in order to span the gap between Caen and the Veld. | |
c. 4000 BR | The Bridge of Worlds is completed and the elven gods come to Caen, whereupon the bridge explodes and destroys Lyoss. | |
c. 3900 BR | Shyrr is founded along with other great cities in Ios. | |
c. 3700 BR | Molgur tribes dominate most all of western Immoren and vie for control. | |
c. 3500 BR | Lords of Morrdh unite settlements, creating the first civilized kingdom of humans. Morrdh begins claiming Molgur territory. Toruk creates his dragon brood. | |
Warlord Era | ||
c. 2800 BR | Warrior-priest Valent Thrace establishes the Hold of Calacia. | Defenders of Thrace |
c. 2230 BR | Priest King Golivant of Calacia is born. | |
c. 2200 BR | Priest King Golivant drives the Molgur tribes from the Wyrmwall. Priest King Khardovic is born. | The Kalmieri: The Saga of Horfar Grimmr |
c. 2175 BR | Priest King Golivant dies and his kingdom breaks up. | |
c. 2170 BR | Priest King Khardovic founds the Kingdom of Khard. | |
c. 2050 BR | King Golivant III re-conquers Calacia and renames it Caspia. | |
c. 2045 BR | Priest King Khardovic dies. | |
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Thousand Cities Era | ||
c. 1930 BR | The Twins, Morrow and Thamar, are born. | |
c. 1900 BR | The Twins, Morrow and Thamar, ascend after the march to Caspia. The Cult of Morrow begins to spread. | |
c. 1880 BR | Menite priests initiate the Purging. | |
1866 BR | Orellius I founds the Divinium in the Wyrmwall Mountains. | |
c. 1850 BR | Rab Vinstra leads the Midar from Morrdh and establishes the Midar Kingdom. | |
c. 1690 BR | Kossite, Skirov, and Khardic tribes battle for regional dominance. | |
c. 1670 BR | Plague ravages Kossite and Skirov tribes. Khards seize Molga and rename it Khardov. | |
1612 BR | Human clans unite establishing Thuria. Trollkin migrate northward. | |
c. 1500 BR | The kingdom of Morrdh disintegrates due to causes unknown. | |
c. 1450 BR | Khardov, the largest city of the north, begins exercising dominance over neighboring territories, primarily through force of arms. | |
1421 BR | Sveynod Skelvoro declares himself first Emperor of Khard. | |
1415 BR | Khard-Kos War begins. | |
1387 BR | Toruk kills and consumes the athanc of the dragon Gaulvang. | |
1382 BR | Kos surrenders to the Khards ending the Khard-Kos War. | |
1370 BR | Several allied warlords establish the nation of Tordor. | |
1330 BR | Horselords join the Khardic Empire | |
1322 BR | Tordoran Conquest of Thuria begins. | |
1313 BR | Tordor annexes Thuria ending the Tordoran Conquest. | |
1277 BR | Most Skirov chieftains renounce the Devourer, convert to Menoth, and pledge loyalty to the Khardic Empire. | |
1250 BR | Primarch Lorichias is assassinated by Khorva, a Menite scrutator. Asc. Katrena appears and slays Khorva in a massive display of power; ascension of Sc. Khorva. | |
1141 BR | Khardic Empire attacks Hellspass. | |
1118 BR | Hellspass War ends with ogruns swearing an oath to Khardic governors. | |
1102 BR | Umbrey declares itself an independent principality from the Khardic Empire. | |
1100 BR | Voldu Grova writes the earliest records of alchemy and refers to crude liquid explosives. | |
1073 BR | Kingdom of Rynyr is established. | |
c. 1000 BR | Toruk is forced from the mainland by his brood and relocates to the Scharde Islands. | |
940 BR | Printing press with moveable type is invented by Rector Janus Gilder. | |
840 BR | The Divine Court leaves Ios in search of a means to return to the Veld. | |
838 BR | Aeric discovers Nyssor in an icy chasm. Nyss settle in the far north. | |
822 BR | The Long Sun, a prolonged drought, kills over one million Immorese natives. | |
821 BR | The Horselord Wars begins between the Umbrean princes and the Khardic Empire. | |
743 BR | Drago Salvoro creates the first steam engine. | |
716 BR | Korska is conquered and the Umbrean princes swear fealty to the Khardic Empire ending the Horselord Wars. | |
714 BR | Korska, dubbed Old Korska, is made the eastern capital of the Khardic Empire; Khardov remains the primary seat of power as the western capital. | |
712 BR | Morrowans move the center of the church from the Divinium in the Wyrmwall Mountains to the newly founded Sancteum in Caspia. | |
c. 700 BR | The dragon Halfaug begins terrorizing the far north. | |
664 BR | Khardic Empire reaches its height. | |
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Orgoth Occupation Era | ||
600 BR | Orgoth blackships land in western Immoren and begin conquest of the Thousand Cities. | |
c. 600 BR | The Wyrmcycle Saga is penned. | |
593 BR | Tordor surrenders to the Orgoth after its powerful navy is utterly destroyed. | |
586 BR | Western Caspia falls completely under Orgoth control. | Stone From Blood |
581 BR | Orgoth invasion stalls at the southern provinces of the Khardic Empire. | |
569 BR | Khardic Empire falls to the Orgoth; Old Korska is completely destroyed. | |
542 BR | Orgoth armies conquer Rynyr. | |
538 BR | Toruk destroys an Orgoth fleet bound for the Scharde Islands. | |
433 BR | Orgoth Empire exercises absolute power over the kingdoms of men in western Immoren. | |
370 BR | Orgoth are said to have slain an unnamed dragon at Uld Vroggen. The dragon’s athanc is placed in a temple; within the month the athanc hatches and the wyrmling burns the temple to the ground. | |
360 BR | The Convergence of Cyriss makes a breakthrough in soul vessel technology | Forces of Warmachine: Convergence of Cyriss (Mk2) |
c. 150 BR | Thamar negotiates the Gift of magic and imparts it to men. | Oblivion |
140 BR | The Rivening: almost all elven clerics lose their power. | Forces of Warmachine: Retribution of Scyrah (Mk2) |
137 BR | First Immorese person with sorcerous abilities discovered at Tarna. | |
96 BR | Sebastien Kerwin, the Father of Wizardry, circulates his study of the principles of arcane magic entitled Dissertations on Thaumaturgical Formulation. | |
90 BR | Sebastien Kerwin pens The Essence of Divine Magic. | |
81 BR | Sebastien Kerwin tutors wizards and institutes the Arcanist’s Academe. | |
73 BR | Sebastien Kerwin pens Principia Arcana Magus. | |
69 BR | Orgoth commit the Vicarate Slaughter; over 500 priests are slain. | |
67 BR | Sebastien Kerwin founds the Circle of the Oath. | |
64 BR | Sebastien Kerwin theorizes the arcanodynamic accumulator and rune plate in his book Synthesis, the first text on mechanika. | |
63 BR | Orgoth destroys Arcanist’s Academe; Sebastien Kerwin thought slain but his body is never recovered. | |
34 BR | Scyrah returns to Shyrr, but will not speak of the fate of the Divine Court. | |
25 BR | The Order of the Golden Crucible is founded by survivors of the Circle of the Oath. | |
1 AR | Beginning with an uprising in Fharin, the Rebellion is declared against the Orgoth by the Iron Fellowship. | |
7 AR | Iron Fellowship is utterly destroyed by the Orgoth. | |
26 AR | Oliver Gulvont, alchemist of the Golden Crucible, creates the first handheld firearm. | |
32 AR | Orgoth are temporarily repulsed from much of Tordor after the Battle of the Hundred Wizards. | |
40 AR | Orgoth recapture Tordor and put all known wizards to death. | |
c. 80 AR | Alchemists of the Golden Crucible build the first rifles with the patent pinlock fire mechanism. | |
84 AR | Rynyr liberated by rifl e-wielding revolutionaries dubbed the Army of Thunder. | |
85 AR | Army of Thunder cuts off Orgoth supply routes in Midfast and Merin. | |
86 AR | Orgoth armies reclaim Rynyr except for Leryn, slaughtering the Army of Thunder and its supporters. | |
93 AR | Rip lung kills thousands in Rynyr, Tordor, and Caspia and is ended in part by Asc. Corben prior to his ascension. | |
107 AR | Victor Baerd creates the fi rst arcane rune plate based on Kerwin’s theories. | |
111 AR | Fraternal Order of Wizardry founded. | |
147 AR | Umbrean horselords lead armies of nomads and liberate Korsk and Rorschik. | |
160 AR | Iron Alliance forms. | |
177 AR | Elias Decklan meets with the Council of Ten to suggest the creation of the Colossals. | |
181 AR | Iron Alliance begins the construction of secret Colossal factories. | |
185 AR | Khards secretly begin construction of Colossals. | |
188 AR | Orgoth destroy Khardic Colossal factories. | |
191 AR | The first Colossal emerges from a hidden factory in Caspia. | |
198 AR | The Iron Alliance mounts a multipronged assault against the Orgoth. The Iron Alliance begins liberating large territories. Orgoth initiate the Scourge. | |
201 AR | The last Orgoth depart from western Immoren. |